Meal Ticket Pilot Script

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am a native Philadelphia writer/producer who also develops content that focus on the relevant topics that affect our communities, our country, and our planet.

I came across your documentary, Return to El Salvador, on www.huffingtonpost.com while researching stories about immigration for my Original Series for Television titled Meal Ticket. I must say wow! I became interested immediately and went to your site since I too have generated a keen interest as to why people of Latin America go through treacherous obstacles to leave their native lands. Meal Ticket conveys a solid storyline about migrant workers from Latin America and immigration. Many of my characters were based on natives of El Salvador who have come to America in search of a meal ticket.

I am seriously looking for partners to get this to the masses. I've solicited the script to many people on both coasts and it has been received very well. I would like to share the materials with your company. Below is a synopsis of the series. I also attached the pilot script as well.

Titled: Meal Ticket

Genre: Drama

Tagline: Everyone is entitled to a meal ticket; however everyone has to eat.

Logline: A 20 year old male who works in a busy upscale Washington, DC restaurant to help finance his return to Howard University. While working in the restaurant, he realizes that everyone who passes through the restaurant’s doors is waiting for a person or thing to depend on as a source of financial support; or in this case, a meal ticket.

Setting: Washington D.C., during America’s "era of stagnancy” and into the "new era of change“.

Premise: Meal Ticket is a character driven drama series based on making dreams happen in a dream taking world. We all have big dreams a...

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...nd leeches because he is perceived as their meal ticket. For the average young man, this all seems overwhelming and great, but to Keith its the life. Keith feels that becoming PRO is his destiny. However, an athletic career is not so promising due to football's high risk. Consequently, Keith will eventually figure that out the hard way.

Or take Bret’s roommate, Pinks. Pinks is an ambitious product of Queens, New York City who is an aspiring rapper/advertising major at Howard University. Although Pinks is a talented artists, he is a victim of cerebral palsy and is disabled. Since Pinks is disabled he depends on his talent as a lyricist and not on his degree to earn a living.

I hope that my story has sparked your interest and motivates you to actually read the MEAL TICKET SPEC PILOT.

Thank you for your time and all the best to Return to El Salvador.

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